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For questions about the badges awarded for specific tags.

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What are the badges I can earn on each site, and what are the exact criteria for earning eac...

Moderation Badges Return to Top Citizen Patrol bronze; awarded once Flag a post Previously only awarded for flagging a post as spam or offensive; this was changed on Feb. 9, 2011 and applied retroa …
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What are the badges I can earn on each site, and what are the exact criteria for earning eac...

Participation Badges Return to Top Autobiographer bronze; awarded once Enter something in the “About Me” field of your user profile (source) Previously, this badge was awarded only for filling in al …
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What are the badges I can earn on each site, and what are the exact criteria for earning eac...

Other Badges Return to Top Analytical (retired) bronze; awarded once As of June 2013, this badge is retired due to the FAQ being changed to the Help Center all across the network. Those who earned i …
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Are upvotes counted retroactively for retagged posts?

Yes, they will count towards it. But tag scores are not recalculated until 03:00 UTC.
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How do I find out how many bronze badges were awarded total per tag?

Just look for the tag in the list of tag badges. All existing tag badges are listed there as well as the number of recipients.
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Seem to have lost 4 Silver badges and 10 Bronze badges

Your account history shows that the email change caused your account to be automatically merged into an older one. This causes all badges from the newer account (which got merged) to cease to exist. I …
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Reduce the required number of non-wiki answers for bronze/silver/gold tag badges to 10/40/100

I disagree. The idea is to make you participate more. All I'm seeing is the required amount of participation being cut in half in order to get the badge. The average user will have way more than 20 an …
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Do the tag scores now update more often?

No, they do not update any more frequently, at least not globally. What does happen is the badge progress tracker keeps track of one tag badge in real time, and will update your tag score more freque …
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Disappearing Protovis badge

Tag badges are only awarded on tags which have at least 100 questions under them. The protovis tag recently dropped below that threshold (it currently has 99 questions) so the badge was revoked. Whene …
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Don't track tag badges for synonymized tags

The correct solution to this is to get the moderators on your site to either: Conduct the merge so there are no longer questions tagged with the synonym. Once all the questions have been retagged by …
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Latest earned tag badge doesn't update when I earn a new one

The badge tracker is not a box to notify you of what your most recent badge you earned was, and it's perfectly possible to track a badge you're nowhere close to earning and have many different badges …
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I lost my JavaScript badge

You dropped below the threshold for earning that badge (you currently only have 99 answered questions under JavaScript), so the badge was retracted. While most badges are normally never taken away (ex …
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Conflicting description for gold tag badge holder's marking as duplicates

Tim Post's answer represents the original implementation of the feature. The help center represents how the feature currently works. It was changed in December 2015, but that'd be more obvious if we e …
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